And as if fate were mocking them, those idiots had just reinforced the barrier's strength...
Feeling that terrifying mass of power crashing to the ground, Dolores gritted his teeth and threw out three Essence Relics. He even detonated his own Essence Staff, unleashing its greatest force ever.
He even forcibly fused that Devil's Fingerbone into his own body—a layer of pitch-black shielding enveloped Dolores, and his figure grew blurred, almost spectral...
The next second, a terrifying, pure force of destruction exploded at the center of the barrier. The unleashed destruction instantly filled the entire enclosure, as if an elemental storm from the void had been trapped inside a rectangular box.
A second later, the top of the barrier burst open with a bang, and the chaotic elemental destruction surged upward like a torrent, shooting thousands of meters into the sky...
From afar, it looked like a pillar of colored light suddenly rising from the earth—visible even tens of miles away.
The barrier—supposedly unbreakable even by a third-tier Sky-ranked mage—was now shattered like a broken mirror...
Forty ninth-tier titled Magi didn’t even have time to scream—they were vaporized in an instant. Dolores, shielded by layer upon layer of defenses and the power of the Devil's Fingerbone, turned spectral, but still got blasted away like a rag doll. More than twenty bones were shattered, the left half of his body nearly vanished, and his organs were exposed...
He self-destructed four Essence Relics and a Devil's Fingerbone, and barely clung to life. Dolores’s blasted body pierced through several hundred meters of alchemical arrays before finally coming to a stop on an ironwood branch...
Even with only half her life left, Dolores still didn't dare to stop. She shrouded her wounds in magic, refusing to let her organs spill from the left side of her body. Her form blurred into shadow as she fled at breakneck speed into the distance...
The shockwave from the Quad-Elemental Bomb, after shattering the barrier, flattened everything within a thousand meters. The alchemical arrays set up by Astral Academy were swept away like paper, obliterated in an instant...
Within the pillar of destructive light, Leon slowly emerged. After taking a dozen steps, the Law Sigil on his forehead flickered and vanished, and the surrounding rampaging elemental forces began to batter his shield...
Feeling the emptiness within his body, Leon frowned.
It really was pushing it. Barely ten seconds was his limit—without the mana support from his semi-plane, his magic would be drained in a second, even his life force sucked dry...
In just those few seconds, the mana consumed was more than thirty times his total reserves...
I should avoid using the Elemental Elf King Avatar from now on—it's just too much. Even now, it's barely manageable. Better to stick with the Flame Elf King Avatar next time...
That experiment just now consumed half the Mana Water in the semi-plane. If not for the Mana Lake, it wouldn't just be my life force—my soul power would have been drained dry...
No wonder, in Northend's peak era, anyone who could wield the Elemental Elf King Avatar was at least Sky Rank pinnacle. Normally, only those who transcended Sky Rank could use it freely...
After barely recovering some mana, Leon glanced toward the direction where the dark mage had fled. He stepped forward, silver light flashing over his body, and vanished in an instant.
Chasing the Dark Mage's trail, Leon arrived at a three-story building just in time to see the mage produce a badge and unlock the building's defenses. As the Dark Mage was about to step inside, Leon spat out a golden Law Sigil.
In an instant, the earth trembled—a lifelike giant hand burst from below and seized Dolores in its grasp.
Leon landed quietly, watching the pale-faced Dolores. With a wave, the dazed Lord Shaun was summoned forth.
"Lord Shaun, time to work. Find what I'm looking for, and you can play however you want."
Lord Shaun had been stuck training magical laborers in the semi-plane, unable to indulge his soul-manipulating whims. He was about to start ranting, but Leon's words made him beam and swallow his complaints.
"No need to hold back. Oh, a Sky Rank expert—and a Dark Mage, too. Wait, this one actually made a deal with a Demon Lord? What a fool. Huh, her contract just vanished..."
Dolores screamed, her whole body convulsing as if she might faint, sensing Lord Shaun's probing of her soul...
The Demon Lord, already spooked, decisively tore up the contract...
With the Demon Lord's contract broken, Lord Shaun lost all restraint. He transformed into a beam of light and dove into Dolores's skull. Instantly, the nearly unconscious Dolores snapped her eyes open and let out a soul-rending howl...
Lord Shaun had been pent up lately—training magical laborers in the semi-plane meant no reckless soul play. If he killed one or left them brain-dead, he'd lose his shot at being Head Foreman...